PlayBook: A Tablet With a Case Of Codependency — Now entering the tablet wars: the BlackBerry PlayBook, a contender from Research In Motion, maker of the iconic smartphone. — Unlike most tablets aiming to take on the iPad juggernaut, the PlayBook, which I've been testing for five days …

A BlackBerry Tablet, but Where Are the Apps? — Listen, I'll be straight with you. I realize that tablets are crazy hot right now, that 2011 is the Year of the iPad Clone and that every company and its brother is rushing one to market. But I'm sorry. I'm not going to review every …

BlackBerry PlayBook review — The words “play” and “book” are a bit of an odd choice for RIM's latest attempt at consumer relevance, a tablet that, at its core, runs one of the most hardcore and industry-friendly operating systems known to man. The OS is QNX and the hardware is, of course, the BlackBerry PlayBook.

Trouble @Twitter — Boardroom power plays, disgruntled founders, and CEO switcheroos are clipping the wings of this tech high flier. — FORTUNE — In March, shortly after Jack Dorsey went back to work for Twitter, the company he co-founded four years ago, he did a Q&A session …

The ruthless Rose — Kevin Rose, the founder and former CEO of Digg, says he won't spend Milk Inc.'s VC money keeping bad products on life support. — FORTUNE — A month ago, Kevin Rose, the founder and former CEO of Digg, built something creepy. He had been nursing an idea that would test …

REVEALED: The Real History Of Twitter — “Mr. Williams says that all successful businesspeople make enemies along the way.” - The New York Times, October 30, 2010 — How Twitter's owners and top executives say Twitter was founded is different than how Twitter was actually founded.

Apple Adds Do-Not-Track Tool to New Browser — Apple Inc. has added a do-not-track privacy tool to a test version of its latest Web browser for keeping customers' online activities from being monitored by marketers. — The tool is included within the latest test release of Lion …

Intel: USB 3.0 in 2012 with ‘Thunderbolt’ — Intel went on the record today saying that its silicon will support USB 3.0 in 2012 and urged developers to target both USB and its new “Thunderbolt” technology. — “Intel is going to support USB 3.0 in the 2012 client platform.

Bill Gates Was Puzzled By Gmail, Book Reports — Many people love the seemingly infinite amount of space Gmail provides. — Bill Gates, at least initially, didn't see the need. — In his new book In The Plex, Steven Levy details Bill Gates' reaction to Gmail six months after the service first launched.

About That Lawsuit... The lawsuit filed Tuesday by Jonathan Tasini is so utterly without merit, and has been so thoroughly eviscerated in the media — including being ridiculed as the “dumbest lawsuit ever” — I am hesitant to take any time away from aggregating adorable kitten videos to respond.

Spotify Halves Free Allowance Ahead Of U.S. Launch — Spotify, which had previously slimmed the amount of music users could play for free, is now making a further curtailment that's aimed at wringing more paid subscriptions... - Free listening hours will be halved from 20 hours per month to 10 hours.

The New Rules of Raising Cash — Raising money for start-ups is relatively easy in Silicon Valley these days. But longtime entrepreneurs and venture capitalists say it is still nowhere near as simple as it was in 1999 and 2000, when a cash flood fueled the dot-com bubble.

Nokia W7 and W8 tipped as first Windows Phone models — If you can accept what we're about to tell you as rumor, and nothing more, then we'd like to let you in on the latest scuttlebutt surrounding Nokia's first dip into the shallow Windows Phone waters. Eldar Murtazin, the eternal Nokia antagonist …